William halsted



them in the way hereinafter described.

or any. other convenient size, anddry-them :jbf from two to five incheseach-way, or in the way, so as to makes; hole, excavation, or aper- UNITED STATES WILLIAM HALsrEn, 0E

PATENT OFFICE.

TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,922, dated January 17., 1865.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM HALSTED, of the city of Trenton, and State of New Jersey, have discovered a new and useful improvement in the mode and manner of .makin gartificial fuel of certain in gredients-viz-., peat, turf of salt-meadow or salt-marsh, or bog-turf, coaltar, or tar produced from or by the distillation of coal,ret'u se5anthracite coal, refuse coke from distilled coal, refuse wood cuttings, chippings, sawdust, or refuse tanners bark, mixed or used togetherin different ways, modem-quai J cities, and combinations of which the followingis a specification.

The nature of myinventionis the combining some or all of i the ingredients above mentioned together in certain ways, modes, and proportions hereinafterspecified, and treating First kind of fueZ.-Uut pieces of peat or turf of salt-meadow or salt-marsh or bog-turf into blocks or parallelograms or cubes of from one inch to three .and a half inches each way,-

and then dip them in coal-tar, and then roll them in sawdust, refuse tanners bark, refuse anthracite coal-dust, refuse coke-dust or charcoal-dust, or the chippings of wood or shamings or chaff or cut sedge or coarse grass drie and out fine;

Second kind.0ut peat-turf of salt-marsh 01 salt-meadow or bog-turf into blocks or cubes shape of a arallelogram from three to-five inches long and from two to threeinches thick, and out out,'scoopout, or excavate the center or' middle part of the block in any convenient or bog-turf, described in the description above given 1111 ture of the size of from one inch to two inches wide and from one to two inches deep. Fill this hole, excavation, or aperture with anthracite refnse coal, or refuse coke, or refuse charcoal, and close up the hole or aperture with peat, turf, wood, or other combustible material. Dry the peat or turf, andafter it is dried dip it into coal-tar, and then roll it in sawdust or in one of the other materials mentioned under the preceding description of the first kind of fuel.

- kin-d. -Mad nithe Sam-a marinara-s.

.the second, except after it is dried it is dipped into a paste made of one'half part sawdust,

one-quarter part coal-tar, and one-quarter part of rye-paste or glue or mucilage. Fourth kind.Made in the same manner as the first kind, with'the exception that instead of being-dipped in coal-tar it is dipped ina paste or mixture made as described above underthe third kind.

Fifth kind-Gut peat or-turf of salt-marsh and scoop'it out or excavate it, as

der the second kind, and then fill the hole,

aperture, or excavation with refuse coal, and

then close it up, as thereinabove described.

' I donot claim as my invention any one' of the ingredients above enumerated; but

What I claim is The combination and (limits in the manner described.- t

' Trenton, August 25, A. D. I864:

WM. HALSTED.

mixture of the ingreand proportions above Witnesses:

AMNE S.-MILLAGH, B. B. HALSTED. 

